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| Archived Webinar | Stories of Fire: Resources for Media CoveringWildfire Events and Topics in Oregon Date Published Media provide crucial information about wildfires and can be key messengers about fire’s role in our landscapes and communities. This summer, the Oregon State University Extension Fire Program and University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication collaboratively published a new resource guide to support effective media coverage of wildfires and related topics. Although developed for… |
| Archived Webinar | The Oregon State Wildfire Hazard Map Date Published To enhance Oregon’s wildfire resilience, the State Legislature passed the 2021 SB 762 Omnibus Wildfire Bill that enacted recommendations from the Governor’s 2019 Wildfire Council. This included a $220M investment in landscape resilience, suppression response, as well as some new regulations for the home ignition zone for community protection. Upon release of a map showing statewide hazard, there… |
| Archived Webinar | Landscape Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Date Published This webinar highlights the findings of several recent studies looking at the effectiveness of fuel treatments conducted at a landscape scale. After a brief overview, it includes short presentations looking at the empirical evidence, simulation studies, case studies, and a new methodology for looking at the effectiveness of landscape-scale treatments. These studies were the outcome of a Joint… |
| Archived Webinar | Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon Date Published Smoke from wildfires is a well-recognized public health and safety issue. While there have been extensive efforts to help communities be “smoke ready”, most people would still prefer not to live with weeks of unhealthy air quality during the summer and fall. This webinar will address what could be done to reduce the amount of smoke experienced by frequently impacted communities during wildfire… |
| Archived Webinar | Considering Equity in Wildfire Risk and Protection Date Published This webinar summarizes recent research examining the equity implications of rising wildfire risk and associated costs, including insurance coverage and the comparative costs for risk management activities in populations with different incomes. Presented by: Matthew R. Auer, Dean and Arch Professor of Public and International Affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs,… |
| Archived Webinar | Wildfires, Communities, and Environmental Justice Date Published In this webinar Francisco Escobedo of the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station summarizes a recent literature review of studies that focus on the environmental justice aspects of wildfire. He then presents preliminary findings on how different socio-demographic groups have been affected by wildfires across California in the last decade. |
| Archived Webinar | Addressing Equity & Environmental Justice in the Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy Date Published Both the US Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is funding the agency’s initial investments to reduce wildfire risk under the Strategy call for considering equity and environmental justice when implementing projects. During this webinar presenters Susan Charnley and Mark Adams (USDA Forest Service) provide an overview of their recent research on… |
| Archived Webinar | Westside PNW Family Forest Owners on Wildfire Concerns and Forest Management Date Published This webinar presented a preliminary overview of information collected from a recent survey of family forest owners in western Oregon and Washington. Presenters gave an overview of the larger project, presented results, and asked attendees about the data that was most interesting to them, as well as what other questions they had as the analysis phase for the data begins. Throughout the webinar… |
| Archived Webinar | Developing a Social Vulnerability Index for Wildfire Risk in Oregon Date Published This webinar describes the development of a Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) for Oregon and its incorporation into the Wildfire Risk Explorer tool mandated through State Senate Bill 762. We present an overview of social vulnerability and how it is measured, along with information on reliability, strengths, and limitations of SV indices and maps. We also walk through the SVI tool within the… |
| Archived Webinar | Invasion, Fire, and the Future of NW Wildlands Ventenata dubia in the Blue Mountains Ecoregion Date Published In this deep dive webinar, Dr. Becky Kerns and collaborating scientists will present and synthesize results from a Joint Fire Science funded project aimed at understanding the current and future Ventenata dubia (ventenata) invasion in the Blue Mountains Ecoregion. Wildfires in 2014 and 2015 in the ecoregion reportedly spread in an unusual fashion owing to this invasive annual grass. Concern… |
| Archived Webinar | Boundary spanning features for collective action to reduce wildfire risk Source Date Published This webinar presents findings on factors that facilitate or frustrate cross-boundary wildfire risk management. |
| Archived Webinar | Landscape fuel treatments and wildland fire management strategies within recent large fire events Date Published Led by Susan Pritchard, Nick Povak, and Rebecca Lemons. This webinar offers an overview of overview of research to better understand drivers of fire severity, whats leading to really large wildfire events, and what these fires are leaving us to manage in the future. |
| Archived Webinar | Evaluating Rural Pacific Northwest Towns for Wildfire Evacuation Vulnerability Date Published In this work, we present a regional screening of Oregon and Washington communities to map wildfire evacuation vulnerability, assessed as the combination of wildfire hazard(burn probability and fire line intensity) and road network quality (assessed by simple geographic summaries of the paved road networks surrounding each town). Many places with relatively constrained road networks also… |
| Archived Webinar | Assessment of Early Implementation of the US Forest Service s Shared Stewardship Strategy Date Published Researchers from Colorado State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Georgia are conducting a five-year study to understand how efforts that began as part of the US Forest Service Shared Stewardship Strategy develop over time, based on interviews with federal and state agency leadership, land managers, and other partners and stakeholders. Presenters:… |
| Archived Webinar | Fieldwork from Afar Using Remote Sensing Tools to Inventory Fuels and Fire Behavior Date Published The idea of using sensors to remotely measure things is not new. Aerial photos taken from hot air balloons were first proposed as a tool for mapping streets in the 1850s. In1941, a US Forest Service ranger developed a technique for mapping fuels with aeria lphotos. Recent advances in remote sensing have dramatically increased the amount of spatial information that can be generated for a given… |
| Archived Webinar | 3D Fuel Characterization for Modeling of Wildland Fire Behavior & Smoke Date Published Rapid advancements in wildland fire modeling are promoting innovations in how we characterize and map wildland fuels. Before these models can be widely used, more research on fuel characterization and mapping methods is needed to support3D model inputs. The 3D Fuels Project is characterizing surface and canopy fuels on pine-dominated sites in the southeastern and western United States and… |
| Archived Webinar | Managing Fire for Water: Lessons Learned from Watershed Protection Partnerships for Wildfire Risk Reduction Date Published Among the values at risk from wildfire are community drinking water supplies, as forested watersheds on public land are often a primary or significant source of drinking water. In some places across the West, watershed protection partnerships have formed to address this threat by bringing together the stakeholders of these watersheds for collaborative planning and investment in source water… |
| Archived Webinar | Effects of scale on remote sensing assessments of burn severity in a ponderosa pine forests Date Published Jessie M. Dodge in the Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID presented on "Effects of scale on remote sensing assessments of burn severity in a ponderosa pine forests." Watch the video on our YouTube channel. |
| Archived Webinar | Strategies for increasing Rx fire application on federal lands from case studies in the US West Date Published Courtney Schultz associate professor of forest and natural resource policy at Colorado State University and director of the Public Lands Policy Group and Heidi Huber-Stearns associate director of the Ecosystem Worksforce Program at the University of Oregon presented on "Strategies for increasing Rx fire application on federal lands from case studies in the US West" watch the video on our… |
| Archived Webinar | Winter isn't Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene! Date Published Stephen Pyne, emeritus professor at Arizona State University presents "Winter isn't Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene." Watch the video on our YouTube channel. Closed captioning available. |